Moscow Hears Italy in Pact with Reich for Anti-semitic Drive

November 5, 1936

MOSCOW (Nov. 4)

The Paris correspondent of Izvestia, official Soviet organ, reported today that Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, has reached an agreement with Germany for adoption of an anti-Semitic program in Italy along Nazi lines.

The anti-Semitic campaign is to be entrusted to the care of Roberto Farinacci, editor of Regime Fascista, and M. Giunta, a Fascist leader, the daily stated.

The correspondent declared that Italy had decided to eliminate the Jewish influence from industry and commerce and to confiscate the Jewish-owned Camiera Novallo Shipping Line of Trieste.